Illuminated Manuscripts

Fritz Heede | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 29, 2003)
• Original Release Date: March 29, 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Magical Eye
• ASIN: B000093HPX
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #537,234 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding music, July 15, 2004

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Fritz Heede's CD Illuminated Manuscripts is the soundtrack from the DVD of the same name. The DVD is an outstanding work with beautiful video animations by John S. Banks to match Heede's luxurious audio. I highly recommend the DVD also.

The music is a fusion of world music, trance, and New Age, with hints of Enigma and Dead Can Dance. It is a delicious blend of traditional instruments like sitar, oud, douduk, and ethnic percussion, with vocal overtone chants, modern keyboards and guitar. Heede does a fantastic job of creating a lush tapestry of sonic textures and rhythms that feel ancient and modern all at once. He manages to make it sound sophisticated yet tribal at the same time, no mean feat.

I immediately started using this music for meditation and visualization. I had the DVD first and was so impressed by the music that I got the CD to save wear and tear on the DVD. I also use the program feature on my CD player (which is better than that on my DVD player) to program a specific sequence of songs for different meditations or magickal work. This music has a deeply spiritual feel, and I find it works very well for my style of meditation.

I find the music and the recording very well done. I think Heede is very good at composing this type of music, and another CD of his, Mystery of the Sphinx, is very nearly as good as this, although with fewer cuts. Both were done as soundtracks, this for Bank's animations and Mystery of the Sphinx for a TV show.

I highly recommend this CD if you like this kind of music. I find that very few CDs excite me as much as this one does. It is very much worth having.